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Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:Most customers were an absolute delight
Tnen a biddy turns up in a new BMW gets out with hubby, loads up the counter with piles of bedding plants and demands a bulk discount.
Upto then my friend and I had been rounding things down just to get shut, but the gimme attitude and appalling lack of manners left me no choice but to decline the haggling and stick to the already heavily discounted price.

TBH was pretty staggered by the shameless gall of the woman

Yeah, we had something similar; this bike was being sold for a low price already ($80), and this lady wanted a 25% discount due to the fact that a small peice that did absolutely NOTHING was missing.....

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Medium of Death wrote:Backhand your sisters?

I hate people that try to haggle in retail stores... your not in some gak infested bazaar.

If you do this, please stop.

I blame this man.



Fething spud.

(No racist)
Lemme guess, Middle Eastern?

I work retail too and that's the typical clientele who wants to barter, but I guess that's how it works over there. Though we typically get a lot of Aussies who ask "is this the final price?". I then say, "Yes, but at the same time you're paying half as much as if you were buying this in Australia". Of course they end up buying a ton so I ain't even mad. (Same with the Middle Eastern types. Again, no racist. Just sayin)

Despite the derps, I don't mind working retail that much. I just don't plan to do it for much longer.

Me: So that will be $190.00.

Customer: Wait, the paper said that it was supposed to be $149.99.

Me: No ma'am, the paper says that the DSi is that price, and this is a DSi XL.

Customer: Yeah, but they're both like the same thing.

Me: No ma'am one of them is larger and was designed for adults.

Customer: Well, the paper says that the DSi's are on sale.

Me: Yes ma'am the DSi's are on sale, but the DSi XL's aren't.

Customer: They're the same thing.

Me: Nintendo labeled them differently and they are priced differently because they're different models ma'am. Its just that because the only difference is size they named it the DSi XL.

Customer: They're the same thing, your ad said that they were on sale.

Me: The ad says that the DSi is on sale and has pictures of the DSi, not the DSi XL.

Customer: Fine, then I want to speak to your manager.

...........

Manager comes by and pretty much agrees with me.

Customer: Fine then I'm just going to go to Wal-Mart because they price match.

*After customer leaves*

Me: Wal-Mart doesn't really honor different sales you know.

Manager: Yeah, she won't get it there either.
.............

30 minutes later she bought the same DSi she was complaining about.

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Coworker: "Hey can you help me with this?"

Me: Sure what?

Coworker: I have a customer looking for a kaniggit.

Me: A kaniggit, is she white?

Coworker: Yeah, I know, but she says her grandson is looking for one.

Customer: Did you find one?

Coworker: Nope, can't find it on our site. Do you know how its spelt?

Customer: Yes, its k-n-i-g-h-t.

Coworker: Oh, a knight, yeah we have those.

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Me: *helping a customer in the bike department next to electronics.

Supervisor: Who's in electronics?

Me: I'm helping a guest.

Supervisor: You need to get back to electronics. *walks away with guy who's supposed to be working in the bike department.

*Later

Me: I'm tired of her.

Coworker supposed to cover bikes: I know, she took me out of there to do some inventory.

That's right, I get yelled at for 'leaving my deoartment' to help guests in areas that have no employees in them because the supervisor is having them do other tasks. Seriously, on my eval they scored me low in that area citing that it could lead to theft. What's funny is that most of the thefts occur in the areas they pull people from, the areas that I am trying to cover as well as my own.

halonachos wrote:That's right, I get yelled at for 'leaving my deoartment' to help guests in areas that have no employees in them because the supervisor is having them do other tasks. Seriously, on my eval they scored me low in that area citing that it could lead to theft. What's funny is that most of the thefts occur in the areas they pull people from, the areas that I am trying to cover as well as my own.

Oh god, I hate that.

I'm on my fething break, I called by my manager to go clean up baby puke because "Coworker X is busy".... Yeah, I walk out of the break room, and not two feet to my left, I see said manager and Coworker X looking at the Managers phone saying "isn't she cute?"

wow...if this is working im not looking forward to my future...

A student came into my office and asked, after some random BS small-talk, who the 34th President was.

I told him that I would pull it up on my computer, and give him a print out, which was really just the first page of Google hits.

Coincidentally he is also the only kid in my class receiving a failing grade.

lord commissar klimino wrote:wow...if this is working im not looking forward to my future...

Opti kids. I want to throttle them every god-damn time I see them. They tried to hang me once.

I was asleep on a bench in the clubhouse after about 16 hours of the 24 hour sail, and the morning sessions of the camp began. As the instructors were all down throwing boats off the dock and into the water, about five to ten miserable 5-7 year olds decided to test their boline knots they just learned. On my neck. They tied the knot, threw the line over the rafters, and pulled.

The words uttered by me nearly got me fired if the mothers and program director hadn't noticed the makeshift noose around my neck. Kids got kicked out, moms got really pissed off, and I actually made a grown woman cry.

That, may I add, was two weeks ago. Opti kids have since put no more than three quarter sized holes into my boat,torn my sails, and have stabbed me. I'm not going to go into that one, but let's say I'm sailing with a bandaged hand.

This is an Optimist:

Slarg232 wrote:

lord commissar klimino wrote:wow...if this is working im not looking forward to my future...

so...your confirming its gonna get worse......dang life,its like a game that cheats!

Chowderhead wrote:Opti kids. I want to throttle them every god-damn time I see them. They tried to hang me once.

I was asleep on a bench in the clubhouse after about 16 hours of the 24 hour sail, and the morning sessions of the camp began. As the instructors were all down throwing boats off the dock and into the water, about five to ten miserable 5-7 year olds decided to test their boline knots they just learned. On my neck. They tied the knot, threw the line over the rafters, and pulled.

The words uttered by me nearly got me fired if the mothers and program director hadn't noticed the makeshift noose around my neck. Kids got kicked out, moms got really pissed off, and I actually made a grown woman cry.

That, may I add, was two weeks ago. Opti kids have since put no more than three quarter sized holes into my boat,torn my sails, and have stabbed me. I'm not going to go into that one, but let's say I'm sailing with a bandaged hand.

This is an Optimist:

Spoiler:

You should totally get a Paintball gun and shoot the little dudes/dudettes.... Red paintballs work bestest.

dogma wrote:A student came into my office and asked, after some random BS small-talk, who the 34th President was.

I told him that I would pull it up on my computer, and give him a print out, which was really just the first page of Google hits.

Coincidentally he is also the only kid in my class receiving a failing grade.

Ah yes, talking to a teacher who's class you are failing. Sometimes it shows effort on the student's part and other times it just shows stupidity. I remember talking to my analytical chemistry teacher about my attendence, he said that it reflected poorly on my grades. Got 3 80+ test grades and one 65. Attendence wasn't my issue, doing homework was.

I like talking to some of my teachers despite my grade though, if I had troubles I would ask if they could help me after class and it put me in good favor with most of them. Usually in math, because the tutoring center didn't help unless you were bilingual.

@Chowder,

I remember being stabbed, elementary school with the special ed kids was always fun. Nothing says hello like a sharp pencil to the neck, but hey at least you're sailing, that's fun.

Okay
Being out of the loupe for the latest in trends and fashions, and being too tired and idle at 05:00 hrs to be arsed to Google

what pray is an opti kid
Spoiler says hotlinking from Red Sports is verboten
Given the website am I to understand an opti kid is an East German shotputter?

or from your very unpleasant experience a bunch of nasty brats?

lord commissar klimino wrote:

Slarg232 wrote:

lord commissar klimino wrote:wow...if this is working im not looking forward to my future...

so...your confirming its gonna get worse......dang life,its like a game that cheats!

Actually, it's gotten better for the most part, but that's mostly because everyone in my department is pretty cool. And by everyone, I mean everyone who was there when I started working there (Feth the 16-18 year olds who have their heads shoved so far up their asses....)

One of the ladies I work with is amazingly awesome, one of them is only slightly less amazingly awesome (she's from germany, and constantly complains about how certain things are stupid over here, but mostly fine other than that), one is always willing to joke around with you (No joke, she constantly tells me to pick up her phone and pretend I'm her, tis hilarious), and my boss is basically the perfect boss; she expects you to work when your there, but if you need a day off, she will almost ALWAYS give it to you.

Of course, this is balanced out by the dude in another department that seems to think Sex Humor is the funniest thing in the planet, and he seems to think I'm gay because I don't pick up coworkers and start humping them.... I don't mind Sex Humor, it's just that when it's done constantly it's freakin annoying, and I don't really mind him calling me gay, because I honestly don't care what a 40 year old with three kids working part time minimum thinks of me.


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halonachos wrote:

dogma wrote:A student came into my office and asked, after some random BS small-talk, who the 34th President was.

I told him that I would pull it up on my computer, and give him a print out, which was really just the first page of Google hits.

Coincidentally he is also the only kid in my class receiving a failing grade.

Ah yes, talking to a teacher who's class you are failing. Sometimes it shows effort on the student's part and other times it just shows stupidity. I remember talking to my analytical chemistry teacher about my attendence, he said that it reflected poorly on my grades. Got 3 80+ test grades and one 65. Attendence wasn't my issue, doing homework was.

I like talking to some of my teachers despite my grade though, if I had troubles I would ask if they could help me after class and it put me in good favor with most of them. Usually in math, because the tutoring center didn't help unless you were bilingual.

@Chowder,

I remember being stabbed, elementary school with the special ed kids was always fun. Nothing says hello like a sharp pencil to the neck, but hey at least you're sailing, that's fun.

I found it hilarious one time that this girl came in TWO MONTHS after this test was supposed to be done, asking if she could take it since she missed it.

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:Okay
Being out of the loupe for the latest in trends and fashions, and being too tired and idle at 05:00 hrs to be arsed to Google

what pray is an opti kid
Spoiler says hotlinking from Red Sports is verboten
Given the website am I to understand an opti kid is an East German shotputter?

or from your very unpleasant experience a bunch of nasty brats?

I'm glad someone asked this...I kept picturing a child with a handle welded to it...( Points if you get that referance.)

halonachos wrote:
I remember being stabbed, elementary school with the special ed kids was always fun. Nothing says hello like a sharp pencil to the neck, but hey at least you're sailing, that's fun.

Yeah, I was stabbed by something like a pencil. Basically, some kid thought it would be a good idea to take a piece of wood and blindly start jabbing. I tried to catch it, but no. Stabby stabby!

And I actually just came from the Northeast Mass JO's. It was a very good time. I would recommend sailing for basically everyone. Everyone except for probably 5-7 year olds in Optis.

During a riot at a place I shall not mention, BerserkSteve and I were trying to take refuge in the choir room, whereupon this choir douche looks at us and says, "You're not choir," and slams the door in our faces. I swear, if gak goes down, and he's banging on my safehouse, he's going to die.

Some kids have handles welded on them?
What did they do to deserve it and how does this causes psychopathic tendencies?

What kind of crazy messed up world is this?

I was once put in ISS for a day for trying to start a riot. I was just talking about Christmas trees and how we should be able to call them Christmas trees in school. Oh highschool how I love you.

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:Some kids have handles welded on them?
What did they do to deserve it and how does this causes psychopathic tendencies?

What kind of crazy messed up world is this?

this,my friend,is earth

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:Some kids have handles welded on them?
What did they do to deserve it and how does this causes psychopathic tendencies?

What kind of crazy messed up world is this?

Handles make them easier to retrieve when they're trying to hang Chowder...
Sad situation all around..

Would be less sad if Chowder just told us what the hell an opti kid actually was..

Okay I will google since you ignorant gets can't be arsed to tell us

I think it is some sort of creche Fitzz
http://www.opti-baby.co.za/

He got beat up by babbies.
No wonder he is reluctant to explain what an opti child is.
I would be embarrassed too.

halonachos wrote:
Ah yes, talking to a teacher who's class you are failing. Sometimes it shows effort on the student's part and other times it just shows stupidity. I remember talking to my analytical chemistry teacher about my attendence, he said that it reflected poorly on my grades. Got 3 80+ test grades and one 65. Attendence wasn't my issue, doing homework was.

I like talking to some of my teachers despite my grade though, if I had troubles I would ask if they could help me after class and it put me in good favor with most of them. Usually in math, because the tutoring center didn't help unless you were bilingual.

Talking to teachers is always a good idea, as it gives us a better idea of what any issue you might have is. Lying is a bad idea though, because we usually know when you do it, we were, or are, students too.

The kid in my story talks to me all the time, and he's a nice guy, he just doesn't do his work. I think, honestly, that he is one of those kids who was railroaded to college by his parents, because he really doesn't belong here. I've actually been trying to get him an interview with my old boss, because he's a fit kid who would make a good trainer.

Apparantly kids trying to learn to sail on one of these:


I personally like FJ's, but then again those are the only things I've sailed on. Water we learned to sale on was polluted though, you can tell because it tastes like tang.

FITZZ wrote:

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:Okay
Being out of the loupe for the latest in trends and fashions, and being too tired and idle at 05:00 hrs to be arsed to Google

what pray is an opti kid
Spoiler says hotlinking from Red Sports is verboten
Given the website am I to understand an opti kid is an East German shotputter?

or from your very unpleasant experience a bunch of nasty brats?

I'm glad someone asked this...I kept picturing a child with a handle welded to it...( Points if you get that referance.)

That boat is known as an "Optimist". Whoever named it that basically played the sickest joke the world has ever known. It's a bathtub with a sail, and people somehow like them.

This is what I sail:






This is a 420. I am the skipper, meaning I'm driving. Also, this is a photo of when me and a previous crew got fourth in Marblehead Junior Race Week, beating out 50 other boats. We were pretty happy.


There are five boats sailed at my club. They go 420/Laser>Yingling>oPenBic>Optimist.

Slarg232 wrote:
I found it hilarious one time that this girl came in TWO MONTHS after this test was supposed to be done, asking if she could take it since she missed it.

A kid came in a week ago asking if he could turn in a final paper for last semester's I-poli course, he was under the impression that he had received an incomplete, when in reality I had failed him (the final paper was 60% of the grade).

Do you use a tennis ball with a bungee cord attached to it as a plug for the boat?

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:Okay I will google since you ignorant gets can't be arsed to tell us

I think it is some sort of creche Fitzz
http://www.opti-baby.co.za/

He got beat up by babbies.
No wonder he is reluctant to explain what an opti child is.
I would be embarrassed too.

Hell, so would I...
Abused by mere infants, shameful...he should have used the handles.

halonachos wrote:Do you use a tennis ball with a bungee cord attached to it as a plug for the boat?

Some people do. But that would require drilling a hole into Skippah, something I will never do.

Chowderhead wrote:
There are five boats sailed at my club. They go 420/Laser>Yingling>oPenBic>Optimist.

Do you also play polo?